Tag Archives: teacher
Where Did the Last Mentor Go?
In grammar school, you had a new teacher every year. Just when you became familiar with one teacher, it was time to move up a grade and meet the next one. As adults, we need to take a different approach. Ideally, … Continue reading
Asking God Stupid Questions
On today’s daf we find one should ask questions even if he knows that people might make fun of him. Rabbi Yirmiyah was well known for his outlandish questions that are recorded throughout shas. In Bava Basra 23 we find that he was … Continue reading
Laughing with God
Deeper than the wisdom to create is the wisdom to repair. And so, G-d built failure into His world, so that He could give Man His deepest wisdom. To repair. -Rabbi Tzvi Freeman “Repair” Based on letters and talks of the … Continue reading
God as a Teacher
The metaphor of God as teacher and human beings as His pupils, a metaphor that gains prominence in the rabbinic period, is also an apt means of describing the covenantal relationship. God as teacher encourages His pupils to think for … Continue reading
Our Teacher Moshe the Shepherd
The Baal Shem Tov was once shown from heaven that a certain simple man called Moshe the Shepherd served G‑d, blessed be He, better than he did. He longed to meet this shepherd, so he ordered his horses harnessed to … Continue reading
The Sufficient Summit
Today’s amud discusses one who saw a dream and was unsure what it means. When Rav Raphael of Barshad first began to search for the ideal way to serve Hashem, he heard that learning the Zohar Hakadosh was a great … Continue reading
Finding Freedom
Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not aware of what the law says? For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman. … Continue reading
As If Considering Angels
For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith, goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. For … Continue reading
The Supernatural Life
When G-d makes a miracle, it is so that afterwards we may look at the natural order and say, “I recognize this. This is not what it appears to be. This, too, is a miracle.” Rabbi Tzvi Freeman from the … Continue reading
Who Are Our Teachers?
If King David, who learned nothing from Achitofel except for two things alone, nevertheless referred to him as his “master,” “guide,” and “intimate,” it certainly goes without saying that one who learns from his fellow a single chapter, a law, … Continue reading
